Little Witch Academia is one of the four anime works that each received 38 million yen (about US$480,000) from the '2012 Young Animator Training Project.' Just like in 2010 and 2011, the animation labor group received 214.5 million yen (US$2.65 million) from the Japanese government's Agency for Cultural Affairs, and it distributed most of those funds to studios who train young animators on-the-job.